Blackmail: Hollywood’s Shadow Economy with Gerald Petievich | Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles, CA | Hollywood doesn’t just sell stories, it monetizes secrets. From mob-run extortion rings targeting Liberace to fixer Anthony Pellicano stockpiling wiretaps on the powerful, and David Letterman flipping the script on his own blackmailer, the pattern is clear. When image becomes currency, leverage becomes power. Gerald Petievich’s latest novel 13 Hillcrest Drive may be fiction, but the machinery behind it is real. In a city obsessed with controlling the narrative, the most dang...